All right guys! So this is my first PROLOGUE-Y chapter of my first story EVER! WOOHOO! Love me! :D This is kind of a downer chapter but it's supposed to really set the scene. Tell me what'cha think! 3

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender or any of its characters. (sadly)

Chapter 1 – Dreams in Green and Blue

Blue and green. Swirling around each other almost as if dancing. Entwining and bursting in cool, oceanic colors. There are smooth carvings in the iridescent light. Her mother is there, standing, watching and waiting. She knows what's coming and the colors grow duller, as if dying. Even in her sub-conscious state, she thinks it's very ironic. Her mother seems to be generating the light and the girl looks down to see the blue and green emanating from her mother's neck as if willing to girl to take the light; her mother's dying wish. The girl reaches out and takes the light in her hand and closes her eyes as colors of all shades of blue and green explode from behind the girl's closed eyes. The thick black wave – like carvings became etched into the girl's mocha eyelids. She cries out at the colors slowly swirl into a more definite shape and the bright blue and green merge to form and blinding blue and green light. The girl gasps and as the light forms into an arrow and then two perfectly shaped glowing almond eyes appear right below.

The light dissipates into blue fire and starts to consume the girl from all sides. Tears stream from her eyes and she screams. She screams until her voice gives out, then she hears an ethereal voice calling to her from some place far away.

"Katara," the voice gently calls. The girl closes her eyes and this time hears the name louder.

"KATARA WAKE UP!"

"AHH! Sokka?"

"Katara what happened you were screaming and thrashing in your sleeping bag! I thought the whole Fire Nation was here trying to attack you or something!"

Katara pants and wipes away tears with a shaking, delicate hand.

"I'm sorry Sokka, I-I did not mean to w-wake you – I just must have had a n-nightmare or something… it's no big deal, y-you can go back to sleep."

But Sokka knows better as he sees his beloved sister's lower lip start to shake, a tell-tail sign of a very up-happy Katara.

"Katara…" Sokka starts gently.

"Was the dream about mom?"

Katara lowers her gaze and looks towards the dying fire where a small yellow and orange figure lays cradled by the feet of a large, furry white beast. Sokka follows his sister's gaze.

"Was it about Aang?"

"It was about both." Katara replies after a while.

Her hand reaches up to touch her mother's necklace resting in the crook of her neck. As she does so, Katara's mind is filled of memories of swirling blue and green from her dream.

"Like I said, Sokka, I'm alright but thanks for checking, you can go back to your beauty sleep now," Katara mocks.

Sokka gives his sister one last un-sure look before huffing and hobbling back to his sleeping bag. Katara lies back too and tries to sleep but she knows it's no use. She lies awake thinking about her mother, her family and the South Pole, but Katara's happy thoughts turn to horrible ones as she remembers the fire bastard who took her mother away from her. A single crystalline tear catches in the moonlight as it makes it's decent from Katara's glittering, sapphire eyes to her smooth mocha chin before in drops to the dry grass below her. She sniffs and nestles herself deeper into her sleeping bag. What Katara didn't notice was her brother's sorrowful gaze resting on her as she lied awake and cried. Only when Sokka saw his sister's bright blue eyes finally close and her breathing gradually slow into a smooth pattern did Sokka finally speak.

"Oh, Katara…"

(AN)

AWWWW YAAAAA! Brother/sister bonding! CUTENESS! So like I said before this is kinda a downer chapter. Katara was dreaming about her mother and her necklace (the blue and green and stuff) and then Aang in the Avatar State (the glowing arrow and eyes) and then the fiiiirrreeeeee (Azula, Zuko 3 and the fire nation stuff). Katara woke up to her brother calling her out of her dream and they were at camp with Aang and Appa, so this takes place at around the middle of book 1 kind of not really… oh well, they just haven't met Toph yet (but they will… mwuahaha). R and R PLEASE!

- Maddie / zutaramakorraforever

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